National
50 Years Later, We Still Haven’t Leaned From Watts – Jeanne Theoharis / NYT
A Matter of Black Lives : Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, is on a crusade to stop the killing – Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic
Block The Vote: A Journalist Discusses Voting Rights and Restrictions – Ari Berman / NPR
Pimps, Prostitutes, Drug Dealers and the GOP’s Colorblind America – Mark Winston Griffith / The Nation
A Year After Ferguson, Housing Segregation Defies Tools To Erase It – John Eligon / NYT
In The End ….No One Really Cared – Suzy Khimn / New Republic
Black and Unarmed – Sandhya Somashekhar, Wesley Lowery and Keith Alexander / Wash Post
Are We in The Midst of a New Civil Rights Era ? – Rebecca Onion / Slate
AP Poll: Over Half of Black Americans Say Police Have Treated Them Unfairly – Jesse J. Holland / TPM
Ferguson’s Legacy: For Blacks, empowerment amid sense of injustice – Patrik Jonsson / Christian Science Monitor
A man elected before his time in Miss. gives politics one more go – Scott Rodd / Wash Post
Lifting the burden of race: What an Obama led commission could learn from Clinton’s failed One American Initiative on Race – Carol V.R. George / Salon
White Flight Never Ended – Alana Semuels / The Atlantic
Thanks to the Supreme Court Traffic Stops Can Become a Gamble of Life and Death – Charles D. Ellison / The Root
Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday – Amy Kittelstrom / Salon
How Slavery’s Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans – Alma Carten / The New Republic
Are Americans More Pessimistic About Race – or More Realistic – David A. Graham / The Atlantic
A Dream Undone (Inside the Campaign to Roll Back the Voting Rights Act) – Jim Rutenberg / NYT
